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Before the film plays on the service, it is now preceded by a video from TCM host and University of Chicago professor Jacqueline Stewart.

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00:00After HBO Max initially removed Southern War epic Gone with the Wind from its

00:11service, the film is now back but with a disclaimer attached. Now when the viewers

00:15play the 1939 film on the service, it's preceded by a video from TCM host and

00:20University of Chicago cinema and media studies professor Jacqueline Stewart who

00:24tells viewers, you're about to see one of the most enduringly popular films of

00:28all time, but warns, the film has been repeatedly protested dating back to the

00:32announcement of its production due to the romantic depiction of the antebellum

00:36South and stereotypical black characters. In addition to Stewart's video, the Oscar

00:40Best Picture winning film is now also accompanied by extras including videos

00:45titled Gone with the Wind a Complicated History and Hattie McDaniel what a

00:48character as well as Stewart's introduction as its own video. Gone with the

00:52Wind was initially removed from HBO streaming service on June 9 amid

00:56nationwide protests over systemic racism following the killings of George Floyd

01:00and Breonna Taylor at the hands of police. In an opinion piece for the Los

01:04Angeles Times on June 8, the 12 Years a Slave screenwriter John Ridley called on

01:07HBO Max to consider removing the title because quote it's a film that glorifies

01:12the antebellum South and when it's not ignoring the horrors of slavery pauses only

01:16to perpetuate some of the most painful stereotypes of people of color. In a

01:20statement at the time HBO Max said that it would return the film to the service

01:24with quote a discussion of its historical context and a denouncement of those very

01:28depictions attached. Gone with the Wind takes place in the American South on a

01:31plantation outside Atlanta in the aftermath of the Civil War and tells the

01:35love story of Southern aristocrat Scarlett O'Hara and Rhett Butler starring

01:39Vivian Lee and Clark Gable. The film became one of the highest grossing films in

01:42history and won eight Oscars including a supporting actress award for Hattie

01:46McDaniel as Mammy a maid at the terror plantation. For more on this story head to the

01:51article on THR.com. For The Hollywood Reporter News I'm Neha Joy.